Describe the effect of embodiment on emotions and evaluations. Provide three empirical examples naming specific researchers).

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The Answer is a. Strack, Martin & Strepper, 1988: When people hold a pencil horizontally in their teeth-making them contract their smile muscles-they find cartoons funnier than when they hold the pencil with their lips. face)
b. Wells & Petty, 1980: When people are induced to nod their head vertically or shake their head horizontally while receiving a persuasive communication, they are, respectively, more or less likely to agree with it. movement)
c. Duclos et al., 1993: When people adopt different postures characteristic of emotions such as sadness, they report feeling those emotions more. posture)
d. IJzerman & Semin, 2010; Williams & Bargh, 2008: When physically or verbally closer, people express and feel literally warmer.
e. Schubert, 2004: Making a fist relates to people's conceptions of power. Cacioppo, Priester, & Berntson, 1993: People like unfamiliar Chinese ideographs better when they flex their arms, mimicking an approach motion, than when they extend their arm, making an avoidance motion.

Describe the Effect of Embodiment on Emotions and Evaluations